Word: tartly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Castle Hotel in Taunton, a visiting chevalier of the Cercle Gastronomique de Belgique went home to Belgium and talked his fellow epicures into awarding the English hotel its Grand Prix for the year. He was eloquent in praise of the roast duckling, the apple tart, the port-touched Stilton. Castle Chef Charles Instep accepted the prize (a silver cup, 18 inches high) for himself and England with becoming modesty. "We can't always please 100% of our customers," he said. "I just try to please...
Though glossily put together and smoothly acted (particularly by Clifton Webb as a tart-tongued socialite), these melodramatic vignettes are merely a ripple on the picture's main theme: the sinking of an ocean liner. Unfortunately, too much time is spent on contrived fiction, too little on dramatic fact...
...Frederick C. (for Coolidge) Crawford, 62, onetime (1943) president of the N.A.M., is as full of zip and noise as a racing engine. In the head-cracking '30s, he defeated every attempt of the C.I.O. or A.F.L. to organize his plants, damned unions and the New Deal. His tart tongue often got him into other trouble; on a World War II visit to France he denounced resistance forces as Communist bandits...
Group pictures of past Kirkland actors line the wall of his office. In the middle of every one of them stands the square-set superintendent with wig covering his thick grey hair or smiling through a Tart's make...
...wise diner begins with one of several appetizers. Taramosalata is the best lead-off dish. Composed of red caviar mixed with lemon, olive oil, and bread soaked in water, its taste combines saltiness with a tart savor. Also, shrimp with a special sauce of lemon, olive oil, dry mustard, and the much used Greek herb, rigone, will start the meal well...